Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Bye Bye Desktop Apps ?

One of the key implications for a virtual world is that, software and applications - that previously used to reside on the desktop are now moving to the internet - as either a free (like Googles "Writely" - now called "Google documents and spreadsheets") or as a pay-per-use (like in the SaaS model) arrangement.

Is this just a fad ? One of the strongest proof points that this is here to stay is when Microsoft - the company wedded to desktop applications - starts testing out the pay per use model as well.
Check out the below link.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=228&tag=nl.e622

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